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Bob Victory

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'Apple's conflict with the DOJ hinges on interpreting convenience or confinement, of attempting to prove loyalty or lock-in. A drawn-out courtroom battle could spell out the spoils of Big Tech's conquest: that years later, people can't tell the difference' finance.yahoo.com/news/apples-se…

Disney, DeSantis board reach settlement in lawsuit over special tax district finance.yahoo.com/news/disney-de…

New forces in media want to exist as public figures, commanding enormous audiences & sway, but reject the scrutiny the press applies to powerful/influential people

(Also notable how such figures and their allies use the concept of “hit piece” as a foundational defense/reaction)

'For a great many, striking a different balance on user privacy could trigger an extinction event. That's especially true for websites already strained by falling traffic, economic volatility, and the looming threat of an AI-led transformation.'

finance.yahoo.com/news/massive-c…

Reddit's AI selling point is that as more of the web gets flooded with automated content, human generated posts will become more valuable.

But if that's true, Reddit handing over its vast archive to AI companies will undermine its advantage over synthetic media.

Reddit is pitching its archive to AI companies to help train their models.

But RDDT is making the same mistake news outlets are: selling their data for guaranteed revenue, while undermining their advantage before the coming onslaught of synthetic media
finance.yahoo.com/news/the-folly…

90 day Fiance extended universe

Saudi Arabia Plans $40 Billion Push Into Artificial Intelligence

“In recent weeks, representatives of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund have discussed a potential partnership with Andreessen Horowitz” nytimes.com/2024/03/19/bus…

This is a great point. It's safe to assume that most lawmakers' experience with TikTok is what they see on Twitter, local news, and visions in their head—even more so than other social media they don't use. They don't experience TikTok, instead assuming the ways other people do.

“The death of programmatic advertising as a sustainable way to fund a media business would have come for the site's profitability eventually … but if any digital media publication had the legs for a long chase, Deadspin…was it. defector.com/jim-spanfeller…

Luke Plunkett For the purposes of transparency, right now we have around 2,700 paying subscribers. Here’s where we’d like to end up and what we’ll be able to offer you, our readers, when we do

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